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This Article was published by High Country News: Rewilding the shortgrass prairie A scientist with ranching roots is trying to restore balance to degraded grasslands. Before European settlers came to North America, bison migrations were essential to the annual renewal

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: TEK and the Return of Wolves, Fire, and Bison Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is the wisdom indigenous and local people acquire by living on the earth. Rooted in a specific landscape and

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Quantifying Wildness; Tracking Wolves and Elk in the Rockies Twenty years ago, I was a stay-at-home Montana mom living in a place where the large carnivore population (wolves, bears, cougars) outnumbered the

This Article was published by The Huffiington Post: Wolves in a Tangled Bank The wolves’ return to Yellowstone and the subsequent recovery of plants that elk had been eating to death in their absence has become one the most popularized

This Article was published by Island Press: Wolves in Paradise? Yellowstone’s Wolves in Transition When Congress listed the gray wolf (Canis lupus) as endangered under the new Endangered Species Act in 1974, it set the stage for a famous ecological

This article first appeared on the Island Press Field Notes blog: The wolves’ return to Yellowstone and the subsequent recovery of plants that elk had been eating to death in their absence has become one the most popularized and beloved

The standing dead trees were everywhere, their boles weathered silver where the bark had peeled. The carcasses of their fallen comrades littered the understory. Few aspen sprouted between the downed trees. The few saplings we observed were struggling to stay